Christmas Links (and Vids) for 2012
No, I still haven’t managed to watch the Doctor Who Christmas Special! We’re waiting for the ABC screening tonight. Oh, iView, where are you when we need you? In the mean time, to keep the Christmas...
View ArticleChristmas Vids: Happy Holidays Too by the Doubleclicks
The Doubleclicks have multiple Christmas songs out this year but the one about how elder siblings get ignored in favour of their baby sisters is a bit too uncomfortable for me! I do however love this...
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Gingerbread Dalek Season
Gingerbread daleks are not just biscuits (or cookies if you are American). “Gingerbread daleks” has become a shorthand for me that conveys a) how ridiculously domestic I get in December, with the...
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Watching New Who: A Christmas Carol
DAVID: A very interesting Christmas special, as Doctor Who riffs on Dickens. I actually think this is one of the best Christmas specials so far, and certainly the one that takes itself the most...
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Post-Christmas Links
The turkey has been dinnered, the Doctor Who Christmas Special and the Call the Midwife Special have competed for the title of Most Depressing Christmas Special that Isn’t Set in Albert Square, and the...
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Seven Days of Joyeux: a Musketeer Space novella
It’s festival time on Paris Satellite: that means a seven day whirl of drunken bets, poor decision-making, religious contemplation and tinsel. But mostly, poor decision-making. Porthos and Athos...
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ROBOTECH REWATCH 31: Christmas is Sadness and Snow
The Robotech Holiday Special will be rewatched after these messages. If you’re at that slightly exhausted, sleepy & mildly nauseous period that hits after Christmas festivities – or just at this...
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Merry Happy Valkyrie!
It’s December and that means my new Christmas fantasy novella, Merry Happy Valkyrie, has been released into the wild! I’ve been home sick with a cold & a sniffling child since December began,...
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The Art of the Christmas Special
I’m fascinated with festivals and traditions — it’s something that has always interested me, to the point that I wrote my Honours thesis about religious festivals in Ancient Rome. The history of...
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